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Thomas Middleton

1580 - 1627

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Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelt Midleton) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jacobean period, and among the few to gain equal success in comedy and tragedy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Middleton has received more than 335,390 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Thomas Middleton is the 4,296th most popular writer (down from 3,668th in 2019), the 3,183rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,704th in 2019) and the 365th most popular British Writer.

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  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Middleton ranks 4,296 out of 5,755. Before him are Dicuil, Adela Zamudio, John Norman, Nélida Piñon, Gleb Uspensky, and Jan Andrzej Morsztyn. After him are Sidney Howard, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, Tommaso Landolfi, Thorkild Hansen, Ahmet Mithat, and Carolina Coronado.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1580, Thomas Middleton ranks 21. Before him are Daniël Heinsius, Matei Basarab, Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, Carlo Contarini, Ustad Ahmad Lahori, and Massasoit. After him is Dirk Hartog. Among people deceased in 1627, Thomas Middleton ranks 17. Before him are Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Olivier van Noort, Vincenzo II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, and Guðbrandur Þorláksson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Middleton ranks 3,183 out of 7,765. Before him are Doreen Massey (1944), Henry Travers (1874), Barry Flanagan (1941), Edward Blore (1787), Gary Numan (1958), and Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694). After him are Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779), Neil Aspinall (1941), Harold Spencer Jones (1890), Swithun (800), Stephen Baxter (1957), and George Abecassis (1913).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Middleton ranks 365. Before him are Tanith Lee (1947), Christiane Amanpour (1958), Clare Hollingworth (1911), Robert Kerr (1755), Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844), and Alan Bennett (1934). After him are Stephen Baxter (1957), Amelia Edwards (1831), Bob Shaw (1931), John Mawe (1764), Isaac Watts (1674), and Walter Savage Landor (1775).

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